John E. Edwards &
Delilah Jane Higgins

John E. Edwards, son of
Richard "Dickie" EDWARDS & Edith BARTON
(BURTON), was born Apr. 24, 1824, in Ashe Co., NC, and died
Dec. 1, 1865. He married Delilah Jane Higgins, daughter of
John HIGGINS & Susan
EDWARDS, abt. 1847. She was born Oct. 14, 1828, in Ashe Co.,
NC, and died Sept. 11, 1916, in Alleghany Co., NC. She married
(2) Thomas EDWARDS in 1869. John
Edwards is buried at the John Higgins Cemetery, Road 1453,
Alleghany Co., NC. Delilah is buried at the Mountain View Baptist
Church, Road 1463, in Alleghany Co., NC.

Notes

ohn E. Edwards was born in 1824 and died in 1865
at the age of only 41. He married his first cousin (once
removed), Delilah Jane Higgins, in about 1847, and they had seven
children. They lived on Brushy Fork (Brush Creek) of the Little
River near both of their large extended families. After
John's death, Delilah remarried to another cousin, Thomas Edwards, and had two more children.
(See Alleghany County Cemeteries Through 1986, published
by the Alleghany Co. Hist.-Gen. Society; see also Alleghany
County Heritage (1983), pp.181, 254, 426.)

Dec. 15, 1856. State of NC to John EDWARDS, 100 acres in Ashe County on Brushy Fork of Little River. Entered Apr. 9, 1844. (Ashe Land Grant No. 4282; Alleghany DB 1:26.) This part of Ashe County became Alleghany County in 1859.